The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-16 00:00:00

TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P. Sift,—There are so many of all conditions who take the li berty of writing and appealing to you, that you can hardly wonder, if another, whose name is unknown to you, should offer a few reflections. The only thing at all extraordinary is, that he abstains from eulogy or invective. To come at once to the point. No question has been more agitated or less sifted than the question, what is c on d uc i ve an effective to the pacification and prosperity of Ireland ? The debaters on tbis subject have usually been hot-headed and ignorent men, who delivered such opinions as they fancied most agreeable to their party. I speak of those whose opinions are likely to gain attention— the Members of Parliament. With your experience and acuteness, have you really been deceived by expectations and promises? If so, and you are disappointed in past hopes, beware of what you cherish for the future. Above all, do not believe that by re-constricting a House of Com mons in Ireland you will obtain your object. Recollect the last. Was there ever so desperate a gang of scoundrels united in one confraternity ? How few abstained from the open sale of their constituency 1 and how many of the other House are at this moment in the full enjoyment of their prostitution ! We disfranchise a miserable town for ever, where a few drunkards are instigated to bribery, for one vote, on one occasion ; yet do you not every day see Irish Lords, with foreheads unbranded, and with ears unslit, who sold the fee simple of their votes for ever ? How happens it that you never have arisen from your seat and demanded, if not judgment on these traitors, at least a final cessation of such infamous hush-money, and an instant abolition of their pen sions ? The law empowering them to receive from the coun try the wages of iniquity would be repealed with unani mous approation ; any supporter of it would expire under the vengeance of the people. With all our reforms and regulations, and alphabetical schedules, and stringent tapes, the most zealous partisans of good housewifery, having stripped the first skin off the onion and blown it away as unserviceable, come to the second and find it tough and intractable. They must bring it over the coals and keep it stewing, if they expect from it any nourishment. They begin to think it as impossible for a public man to be an honest man, as for a public woman to be an honest woman ; and they see this only difference, that the public woman may keep her appointment, which the public man of late is never found to do. A fine bill of fare was laid before us ; but at last we are reduced to our old regimen ; the Ministers find bubble, and the people squeak. When you pluck and pinion your own defaulters, all that was granted to them in any shape ought to be applied to the comfort and instruction of our poor. No doubt you smile at so inadequate a project; and well you may, if nothing lies beyond it. This was only suggested as the most obvious, and the first and foulest stumbling block of offence. Furthermore, then, let every diocese in Ireland have both its Protestant and Roman Ca tholic bishop. Let each enjoy the ample pay of twelve hundred pounds a-year ; a larger sum than is the average sti pend of the bishops in France and Italy; a larger sum, by more than double, than is granted to our generals and admi rals after a half century of service, after a life of danger, after a separation from friends and families, after a loss of health and limbs. Let the total of church lands be sold in small divisions, year after year, to supply a fund for schools and colleges, in which morality and religion shall be taught more effectually than invidious wealth can teach them ; these be ing the objects for which all forms of worship were esta blished. Thereto might be added whatever is above five hundred a-year in church livings. I see no more injustice or hardship in this curtailment, than in reducing to half-pay the officers of the army and navy. We do not say to them, " You shall enjoy your full pay during your lives ; but your suc cessors s h a ll rece i ve on ly half-pay ;" w hy should we, then, to another profession, as much under the head of the church as these are under the head of the army? Is it because toe one is remunerated in silver and gold, the other in corn and cattle ? Whoever is paid by the nation may lawfully be paid in such proportions as the nation shall ap point. Livings have been sub-divided; why may not bishop rics? In fact, the only reformed church is the Papal; and thousands are daily taking refuge with her, from the avarice, fraud, and hypocrisy of her blustering, bloated sister-in-law ; from the sale of whose false curls and pigments and perfumery, not only might enough be added to schools and poorer benefices, but much would remain, which might be applica ble to noble plans of colonization. No doubt can be enter tained that our gracious Queen would joyfully contribute to them her extensive possessions in Ireland, from which her Majesty derives but small revenue, and industry no advan tage. Enough might be sold by auction every year to conduct into Canada and Australia twelve thousand men, women, and children ; to supply each labourer with an axe and spade, with clothing for two years, and with sixpence daily to both old and young, for the first eight months. Would not this be better than to immure the healthy, although within sight of home ; and if beyond the sight of their friends, by no means beyond the hearing of their voices ? Doubtless these are bene fits, gratuities, blessings ; but can we invent none greater ? none more congenial ? If such questions are vagaries, quite unworthy of the politician, let us consider whether nothing can be thought of more convenient and serviceable to ourselves. Is colonization less advantageous to us than the same expendi ture of our wealth in workhouses, which some of the Irish will look upon as prisons, and others as the out-works of fortresses ready to be voided of their inmates and to be converted into barracks at the first panic of an irresolute Ministry ? The money destined for this unpopular scheme would be much bet ter expended in canals and railroads, on which a large propor tion of the same poor people may be employed whom our le gislators are preparing to immure. Let ten acres in Canada and Australia be allotted to every man, woman, and child who emigrates. In a very few years our remaining colony in Ame rica will support a population quite adequate to counterba lance the French inhabitants. Ilence a third of our customary f )rce will be sufficient to maintain the tranquillity of the country. These considerations alone, leaving aside humanity, would have their weight, were any consideration so weighty as power and patronage ; and I address them, Sir, to you, as able to force our Administration on the line of duty, or to crush and scatter it if refractory. You will find that if the system of coloni zation is carried on for twenty years, your country, instead of losing in population will much increase in it; poverty alone will diminish ; crimes will grow less atrocious; political and religious differences will be forgotten in the circle of domes tic comforts; new interests will spring up between man and man visibly and tangibly, and old animosities will subside and cease. Indeed, lam convinced that at the expiration of twenty years not only will your numbers be much greater, but that your wealth and prosperity will advance in a still higher degree by the perpetually moving current of a well regulated colonization. The blood suckers of stagnant Ire land will no longer be able to derive forty or fifty shillings a-year from a so lit ary acre o f potato groun d ; f or , suppose that regrating of land is not repressed by law (as it ought to be) like regrating in the market, yet such will be the quantity brought into cultivation at home, and such the facility of ob taining it abroad, that middlemen will be found only in your circulating libraries, and their suzerains must return from England and learn arithmetic and humanity in your parish schoolrooms. I am, Sir, &c., WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. Bath, September 25. TO WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ. " Thus shall memory often in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over ; Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time, For the long-faded glories they cover." Darrynane Abbey, October 4, 1838. Sir—You wrong me much in supposing that I do not know you. " Not to know you were to bespeak myself unknown." Little do you imagine how many persons besides myself have been delighted with the poetic imaginings which inspired these lines on one of the wonders of my infancy—the varying sounds emitted by marine shells_ " Pleased, they remember their eugust abodes, And murmur, as the ocean murmurs there." Would that I had you here, to show you " their august abode" in its most awful beauty. I could show you at noon tide,when the stern south-wester had blown long and rudely, the mountain waves coming in from the illimitable ocean in ma jestic succession, expanding their gigantic force, and throwing up stupendous mountain-cliffs that fence not only this my na tive spot, but form that eternal barrier which prevents the wild Atlantic from submerging the cultivated plains and t high steepled villages of proud Britain herself. Or, were you with me amidst the Alpine scenery that surrounds my humble abode, listening to the eternal roar of the mountain torrent as it bounds through the rocky defiles of my native glens, I would venture to tell you how I was born within the sound of the everlasting wave, and how my dreamy boyhood dwelt upon imaginary intercourse with those who are dead of yore, and fed its fond fancies upon the a ncient and l ong -faded glories of that land w hi c h preserved literature and Christianity when the rest of now civilised Europe was shrouded in the darkness of godless ignorance. Yes! my ex panding s pi r it d e li g ht e d in these day d reams ; till, cat ch ing from them an enthusiasm which no di sa pp o i ntment can embitter nor accumu l at i ng years diminish, I formed th e hi g h resolve to leave my n a ti ve l an d b e tt er after my death th an I f ound her at my birth, and, if possible, to make her what she ought to be " Great, glorious, and free First flower of th e eart h , and first' gemoithe sea." Perhaps, if I could sh ow you the calm a n d exqu i s i te b eauty of these capacious bays and mountain promontories, softened lovely evening, till in the pale moonlight which shines thisP all which during the day was grand and terri fic has become calm and serene in the silent tranquillity of the clear you would readily admit t h at the man who harsnblegehnt— perhaps so often called a feroc ious de magogue, is, in truth, a gent l e lover of Nature, an enthusiast of all her beauties— Fond of each gentle and each dreary scene," and catching from the loveliness as well as the dreariness of the ocean and Alpine scenes with which he is s urrounded a greater in ardour to promote the g ood of man, his overwhelming ad miration of the mighty works of God. Let me now proceed to answer the matters of your l etter. They are various, desultory, unconnected ;deslomeotfliiintgs imagi nation atghie_ disorder of unsettled poetry , and a go nation and fiction. Sometitnes you make statements, and then again you ask questions which imply the allegation of facts that never existed. I will follow you as well as I can, de ploring that a man of your talent shoul d be so ent i re l y ig norant of the real state of Ireland. You speak to me as to a man familiar with fallacious hopes and un ex p ected dis appointments. I am not so. My experience is of a success almost equal to my own hopes, and beyond the expe ctations of those who acted w ith me. I am the organ of a brave, a generous, and, above all, a religious people. Why should I despair ? You tell me authoritatively " not to believe that by recon structing a House of Commons in Ireland I will obtain my object." Sir, I place no faith in your counsel. I know as fact, that no country ever progressed so faseand so extensively in agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial prosperity, as Ireland did during the period that intervened between her as sertion of legislative independence and its extinction. It is much safer to judge of the future from the past than to con. fide in your opinion, who seem, indeed, to know nothing of the matter. Younext proceed to ask me, " Was there ever so desperate a gang of scoundrels united in one confraternity as the last Irish House of Commons 2" Your question is an indiscreet one, but I reply to it at once. YES—I have seen a more des perate and despicable gang of scoundrels—of scoundrels with infinitely less of temptation, yet infinitely more voracious of rascality. Yes—l have known scoundrels of so atrocious a description as to cant incessantly about religion—as perpetually to boast of the purity of Protestantism and their zeal for its maintenance, and yet to adopt, as one great mode of sustain ing their pious objects, the most gross injustice committed through the medium of diabolical perjury 1 You are, indeed, an incautious advocate of the continuance of the Union! The Irish people are entitled to have their Parliament continued, unless it has been extinguished by a valid law. It is a maxim of British jurisprudence that fraud vitiates everything. More than one private Act of Parliament has been set aside for fraud by your Court of Chancery—your Court of Conscience. You say that the Union was the act of the most desperate gang of scoundrels that evor existed—the proof of their scoundrelism consisting in their having passed that very Act. Can the magnanimous people of Ireland be bound by that desperate scoundrelism ? Arc the people of Great Britain justified in conscience, in justice, in honour, in availing themselves of a scoundrel trick? I thank you, good Sir, for your character of the last Irish Parliament, and for giving me as a proof of that character—THE UNION. Anxious as I am to avail myself of this admission, I must, however, proclaim that you do injustice even to the Union House of Commons; for, in the first place, a majority of the Members in 1799 rejected the Union proposal; a majority of the Inisii Members were against it even in the year 1800. But how was that majority turned into a minority ? Why, by the Government, the infamous Castlereagh at its head, pur chasing up a sufficient number of the rotten boroughs, and re turning for them Scotch and English officers and adventurers. It is some comfort, at least, that it was Scotch and English scoundrels who really carried the Union ; and I wish you joy of being the cause of making this fact also prominent. You proceed to ask how few of the Irish House of Com mons abstained from the open sale of their constituents. You seem to be completely ignorant of the facts. Almost all those who had constituencies refrained from the sale of them. When the Union vote was carried in a House of 278 Members by no greater majority than 43, the minority was 117 ; and, if it had come to a casting vote, the Speaker would have voted with the Members who composed the minority. The men who re fused to sell their constituents were thus 118 to 160. Twenty two more Irishmen would have rendered the Union impos sible; and yet the existing 118 are confounded in your indis• criminate vituperation with the desperate gang of scoundrels, Scotch and English as well as Irish, who belonged to the majority. If you knew the history of that period, too, you would esti mate highly the virtue of that glorious minority, who with stood every temptation to barter away the rights and liberties of their country. Show me any one hundred and eighteen Englishmen or Scotchmen that ever resisted such unparalleled powers of intimidation and corruption. The pecuniary bri bery alone exceeded three millions sterling, exclusive of one million two hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds, which more recent Parliamentary Papers prove to have been laid out in the mere purchase of boroughs. Why, the teeth of your modern Parliamentary scoundrels (for I use your own, your gentle word) would water at the idea of three millions in solid bribes I I suppose you are convinced that it would be impossible with that money to bribe one hundred and sixty of the present House of Commons ! ! I shall leave you in the undisturbed possession of that opinion. But it is my duty to tell you that other and equally vile instruments were used in order to influence the majority. Perhaps you do not know that the habeas corpus Act was suspended and martial law proclaimed, during the entire period of the Union dis cussion ! The means, supplementary to mere corruption, by which the Union was carried, I shall describe—not in my own words but in those of Lord Plunket, the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Listen, I pray you, to Lord Chancellor Plunket's de scription of these secondary means. They were, he said, and he said truly-- . _ _ The Deprivation of all Legal Protection to Liberty, or Life. " The familiar use of Torture. " The Trial by Courts Martial. " The forcible Suppression of Public Meetings. " The total Stifling of Public Opinion, and the use of Armed Violence." You may imagine that men of the rank of Members of Par liament were not likely to be intimidated by these means. But in Ireland at that period, no rank, no statism, no respecta bility, could protect the victim of despotic power : it was a reign of terror. Sir Edward Crosbie, a Baronet of ancient and most respectable family, of unquestionable loyalty, was hanged by the sanguinary caprice of some officers of the Car low garrison. Mr. Devercux, of the county Wexford, was hanged, it was afterwards said by mistake 1 and the fate of young Mr. Byrne, of Ballymanus, acquitted, but executed— left no man secure for one moment of his liberty or his life. Sir, the Union was carried by more crimes than have ever as yet been inserted in your calendar. Calling the Irish Members scoundrels will not do ; it will not cover the hideous atrocities by which that fatal measure, the Union, was achieved. More of the villainy that achieved it was perpetrated out of the House than within its walls. Blame me as much as you may, for endeavouring to restore to Ireland that Legislature of which she was so basely swindled and so criminally deprived. I thank you for giving me this other opportunity of informing the youth of Ireland how it was that their national indepen dence was annihilated. I confidently hope that the lesson will not be thrown away ; and whilst I keep the boiling of their young blood within legal and constitutional channels, I have no fear but that they will in due time remember that their country seas a nation, and must be a nation again —either by being embodied upon equal terms in the British community, or by obtaining- equal rights and liberties for themselves. If this were the place for it, I could prove by historical do. cuments that the Irish Parliament was, beyond any compa rison, more independent, and evinced more instances of disin terested patriotism in the course of a few years, than did the Parliament of England from the accession of the House of Brunswick to the death of George the Fourth. If I had your talent for calling scoundrels, what should I say of the British Parliament that passed a vote of approba tion of the Walcheren expedition ?—that voted as a matter of fact that a pound note and a shilling were equal in value to a golden guinea, at the very time that every member of the House who happened to have a guinea in gold could at once obtain for it a thirty-shilling note of the Bank of England ? And, above all, that passed a vote cf approval of the sangui nary massacre of men, women and children—aye, of English men, English women, and English children, by the yeomanry and army at Manchester. Scoundrels, indeed I—why the Irish Parliament rise in the comparison, almost beyond the powers of calculation 1 Look, however, to modern times. Since 1829 the Irish people at large have participated in the representation of their own country. Compare the conduct of the majority of th e Irish representatives since that period with that of the English Members, and you will find that we have voted for every exten sion of public franchise or privilege, and for the diminution of every public burthen, whilst the majority of the English Members in most instances have voted directly the other way, There is no reason in the world why I should not be .con vinced that if the Union were repealed to-morrow, the Mem bers of the Irish Parliament would not (to say the least of them) be as honest, as intelligent, as independent, and as patriotic as any men who have ever sat in the British House of Commons. You are next pleased to propose your remedial measures for Ireland. In the first place, after twining through all possible mazes of culinary metaphors, you gravely suggest that I should apply to Parliament to confiscate to the profit of the poor of Ireland the titles of the Irish Union Peers, and the pay and pensions and other bribes, of the majority who carried the Union. This would, indeed, be a wretched provision for the Irish people. Ido not know what value could be set upon the titles which were obtained in exchange for Union votes. We con sider them little better than nicknames, and, so far from desir ing to participate in them, the Irish poor are content that the Union Lords should not only bear these nicknames, but should, in addition, take the more appropriate title of " scoundrels," which you have bestowed upon them. Let them enjoy both ; and let us say no more of that matter. As to the bribery, indeed, and the pensions—that is quite another business. These are materials of a different value. The bribery was extended not only to the union Members of Parliament, but to every man who could in any way influence a vote, write a pamphlet, make a speech, or propose an ad dress in favour of that measure—not only to every man who had any influence to support it but who affected to have such interest. Here would be a lot of prizes, indeed, here would be something to feed the poor—if we could get at it. Aye, there lies the rub; that is the difficulty of difficulties. The money has been expended, eaten, drank, gambled; squan dered in every vice and in every profligacy. The individuals who received it have sunk into oblivion, and are as personally rotten as they were politically so. They lived detested and they died despised. HE, the leader of them all—Castlereagh —avenged his betrayed country by cutting his own throat, to avoid the false imputation of another horrible crime of which he was guiltless. Oh ! how his country was revenged I Al most all the rest of them are dead and forgotten. There are few, indeed, alive. Of the pensioners I know but one who survives. There are, indeed, but few living, and it would be trifling to strip these wretches. They are almost all gone—. How are they blotted from the things that be I How few—all weak and withered of their force, Stand on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks ! the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight. No, Sir • your plan will neve r answer . Y ou m i ght as well require the worthy Aldermen of the City of London to dis gorge for the benefit of the poor the civic feasts of the last twenty years. Thy image is a coarse one, but it is not therefore the less accurate. Your next plan borders on the facetious. It is the having a Protestant as well as a Catholic bishop in every diocese in Ireland, at what you call the ample pay of 1,2001. a-year each. As to the Catholic bishop s , we have already on e i n every ent r y h - s e e y v w en ou i l n d, a i l n l d — e o e u d r , diocese • there being, I bless God, archbishops and t wenty - t h ree bishops. consider 1,2001. per annum each an Ample endowment ; b a t they are too wise and too pious to have anything at r.-o,ltiesi::dnagtr with a state endowment. Pass them by. You must surely be in jest when you talk of 1,2:004 a _ ye to a Protestant bishop. Why, what would bishop be with 1,2001. a-year, Oh, ridiculous llt would be THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1838. hardly sufficient for Mrs Bishop's toilet, and the little Misses Bishop's dancing and music I " Cease your funning." But, in sober sadness, how your plan differs from that of the great Lord Stanley 1 He is a zealous Protestant, and wishes to Protestantize Ireland ; and finding the Protestant Bishops a species of nuisance in his way, he at one blow strikes off ten out of twenty-two; and very properly declares there is less mischief in twelve than there would be in the entire number ; and yet you have the audacity (I must use the word) to differ with so great a Protestant and so great a man, and to multiply Protestant Bishops in Ireland, while he is striking them down like ninepins I Your next project is the sale of the Church lands, for the purposes of founding schools and colleges. Here is, indeed, a gleam of pure good sense, and I thank you heartily for it. And, then, your plan of reducing the emoluments of the Pro testant livings is safe, salutary, and, above all, practical—one which, I trust, we shall see effected, and in which I readily offer to co-operate with you. Again—your good sense breaks out when you contrast the real Reform which has taken place in the Catholic Church, with that fraud, hypocrisy, fanaticism, and plunder, which have been called " Reformation" by her enemies. The Catholic Church—unalterable, because truth is unchangeable, in matters of faith and of essential discipline— has thrown off the rust, " the straw and the stubble," which ages of peace and security had flung upon some of her prac tices. Besides, she has banished for ever Simomacle con. tracts, and all the abuses of pluralities. You are quite right, in saying that thousands daily return to her fold—" the one fold of the one Shepherd ;" and I hope that the spirit of Christian charity, the greatest of all virtues, will come at length to be cultivated by the enemies of the eternal Church —enemies who have too long spent their time in vile calumnies and useless revilings. There is much matter for serious thought and statesmanlike counsel in your plan of emigration, and in your notion of the distribution of the Crown lands. But it has been deemed more flippant to cut short all wiser schemes, in order to fling upon us a poor law ; to sink our property in workhouses, and to make us rich by causing us to support with money masses of our poor, at the expense of an establishment, the cost of which would produce most valuable results if employed in the man ner you suggest—in canals, in railroads, and in other useful works. You are, however, mistaken in supposing that the rent of land is higher in Ireland than in England. It i s a mistake in which so many concur with you as to be quite blameless. Ido confess you have made me melancholy. There are in some of your suggestions materials of incalculable utility to Ireland. But how are they to be worked out ? What chance is there of obtaining a patient and thorough investigation of the discordant elements which belong to our political economy? Our absentee landlords—our hostile resident proprietors—our impoverished agriculturists —our extinguished or expiring ma nufactures—how is the remedy to be found for these, and one thousand other evils with which the social state in Ireland is filled ? I will tell you. By a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE ; and by a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE ALONE. The last experiment to obtain a fair consideration for the claims of Ireland is being made ; and before twelve months are over, I, for one, shall, I believe, be driven to labour to expunge for ever from the statute book that " desperate act of scoun drelism," which you have characterised with no less severity than truth, as far as relates to the Act itself, I am, Sir, &c. &c. &c., DANIEL O'CONNELL. COMPARISON OF FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET. The price of white wheaten bread of th e first qua lity a t Paris is 791 e. the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than 6. 1 ,d. the loaf of 41b. English weight ; and the p r i ce o f b rea d of' the first quality in London being 10d. the loaf of 41b., the difference is 53i per cent. that bread is dearer in London than at Paris. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 67f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 425. 2d. the sack of 2801 b. English weight, and the highest quotation of flour of the first quality in London being 60s. the sack, it fol lows that flour is 42+ per c en t. d earer i n L on d on than at Paris, and that with the sum of 3/. a man may buy 3981 b. of fine flour at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b. in London. According to the official return the average price of wheat at Paris for the precedi►,g month ( September) was 18f. 78c. the hectolitre, which equals 435. the quarter. The following is the state of things in other parts of France : At Abbeville the highest quotation of wheat of the first quality is 25f. 50c., which equals 58s. sd. the quarter. At Bergues the registered price of wheat of the first quality is 2Sf. 51c., of the second quality, 261. 71c., and of the third quality, 251. 37c., which gives a mean price of 26f. 86c., and which answers to 61s. 7d. the quarter. At Bordeaux wheat rules from 21f. to 221., which is from 48i. Id. to 50s. sd. the quarter. At Blois the registered mean price of wheat is 201, BSc., which equals 475. 10d. the quarter. At Rouen wheat rules from 22f. to 24f., which is from 50s. sd. to 555. the quar ter. At Verdun the quotation of wheat of the first quality 13 20f., which equals 455. 10d. the quarter. At Marans wheat rules from 171. to 181., which is from 38s. 111. to 41s. 3d. the quarter. At Toulouse the highest quotation of wheat of the first quality is 201., which equals 455. Iod. the quar ter. At Soissons the quotation of wheat of the first quality is from 3041. to 3131., of the second quality from 292 f. to 303 f., and of the third quality from 2681. to 288 f., all per muid of 13 hectolitres, which gives a mean price of 221. 67c. the hectolitre, and which answers to 51s. 11d. the quarter. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 68f. the 159 kilogrammes, which equals 425. 105. the sack of 2301 b. English weight, and the highest quotation of flour in London being 603. the sack, it follows that flour is 40k per cent. dearer in London than at Soissons, and that with the sum of 31. a man may buy 3921 b. of fine flour at Soissons, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b. in London. INSOLENCE OF TIIE SERVANTS OF THE BIR MINGIIAM RAILWAY.—Mr. Kendrick, of Crewe, Cheshire, on Monday last, booked himself and his family toßlisworth, by the Birmingham Railway. On arriving at the station Mr. Ken drick and the ladies alighted, when he asked for his luggage, and was answered " You can't have it." Mr. Kendrick na turally desired that it might be instantly taken out of the box and given into the possession of his servant. The railway officer said he should not have it, and that it should go to town and be returned by the down train ; " and if," said the fellow, with threatening gestures, " you give any of your in solence, you shall be taken into custody." The train then started, and the whole of the gentleman's family were left without a change of clothes until five days afterwards, when the things were sent from London, and Mr. Kendrick had 6s. to pay for them. We simply ask whether this conduct from any set of tradesmen will be tolerated by the public? and whether any Jury would fail to give, or Judge fail to recom mend, damages for such conduct.—Northanipton Herald. DEATH FROM ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM.-An inquisition was commenced on Sa turday, at the White Hart Inn in this town, before Mr. G. B. Corfe, Coroner, having reference to the death of Mary Ann Strong, late a pauper lunatic confined in Mrs. Middleton's Asylum, at Grove place, about four miles from Southampton, on the Romsey.road. After evidence had been heard at con siderable length, for which purpose the inquest was adjourned for three days, the Jury, after deliberating about two hours, returned unanimously the following verdict :—" The Jury are of opinion that the death of the said Mary Ann Strong was occasioned by natural causes, accelerated by the ill-treatment she experienced from the two nurses, Mrs. Rose and Cathe rine Sellens, during her confinement in Grove-place Lunatic Asylum." The Coroner, considering the verdict an important one, thought it advisable to hare the inquisition engrossed on parchment ; and he therefore adjourned the Court until to morrow evening, at six o'clock, when the Jury are to attend and sign such inquisition.—Abridged from the Hampshire Independent. Letters from Naples, dated in the last week of Sep tember, represent the weather to be remarkably fine, and the concourse of strangers great, with every prospect of a very animated winter. CURIOUS AFFAIR.— At the Brighton Police office last week, Miss Mary Ann Preston, a lady of about thirty, still posses s ing considerable beauty, giving her name to the bench, said she had to complain of several assaults, and of bei ng ro bb e d o f h er s h aw l by a gentleman of great consi deration i n th a t town. " Give his name," said the Magi strates ; "His name—his name," . emphatically responded Mr. Wigney, the Chairman. "I do not like to do so," said the complainant, " he is one of the Magistrates." " Oh, oh," said Mr. Wigney, " I will leave the bench." " Then his name," said the complainant, " is Isaac Newton Wigney, the banker and Magistrate." The complainant then stated that she had been three times assaulted and caned by Mr. Wigney, who at the last assault took her shawl from her back and kept pos sess;on of it. Mr. Wigney denied the charge, and pro duced witnesses to prove that for years past Miss Preston had followed him everywhere, annoying him and his family . and in endeavouring to hold her till an officer should make his appearance, she ran away, leaving her shawl in his hands, which he gave up to the police. On the Bench asking both parties what had passed to cause such strange conduct, both lady and Magistrate coughed and hemmed. At last the lady said that Mr. Wigney had falsely stated himself to be a single man, some years ago, and had first engaged her af fections, and then, disclosiag his marriage to her, made dis honourable proposals offering to keep a splendid establishment for her if she would become his mistress. The Bench, dis believing the lady's story, said Mr. Wigney was justified in acting as he did, and dismissed the complaint. The worthy banker then preferred a complaint against the l a d y f or walk ing before his house, and creating a disturbance, and she was ordered to enter into her own recognizances to k eep t h e peace for twelve months.—. Abridged from the Brighton Guardian. EQUAL JUSTICE.—Last week a poor woman was fined ten shillings for slapping a boy's face for grossly ill-using her, and in default of payment was sent to gaol for a month. Three days ago, Mr. Crisp, a commercial gentleman, was quietly taking his tea in the coffee-room of the Saracen's Head a fas Inn, when hionable tailor, residing in Sackville-street, Pic cadilly, L on d on, w h ose nam e is Hernon, came i n t o th e room in a violent gross a ' e assion, and, after abusing Mr. Crisp, gave him a severe blo oon the face. The worthy Magistrate thought this a ssault, the cause of which was not even inquired into , fully punished by a penalty of five shillings. We should be C .ail if any member of the Bench would favour us with his opinion as to which case the greater justice has been done.-- Lincoln Chronicle. A broker was arrested the day before yesterday for attempting to set fire to a warehouse which he rents in the Rue Ju das, and which he recently insured for a sum much above the value of the goods deposited in it.—Galignani's Messelger. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, We are told by the Scotsman that " from the first agi tation of the Reform question the Tories denounced the apostles of the new doctrine as men bent on destruction, and aiming at the overthrow of the State. No charge against Reformers has been so repeatedly, so zealously, and perhaps so successfully urged. When an appeal to the understandings of the community was hopeless, it was always an easy alternative to address their fears ; and ac cordingly we find the Tory party made up in a great mea sure of those who cling to existing abuses, simply from a dread of change." With all deference to our esteemed Con temporary, lie does here more than justice to the Tory party. There are few disinterested Tories. On going through any neighbourhood it will be found that the 'Forks are almost to a man bound up with some profitable abuses in Church or State. We are speaking of those who are Tories them selves, and not the poor creatures who are subservient to Tory purposes, through bribery, intimidation, &c. We are, however, ready to admit that in this country there are vast numbers without any decided political principles, who in times of strong political excitement, are tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, and whose fears are often worked on by the Tories in the way described by. our Contemporary. The diffusion of sound political know ledge has a tendency to thin the ranks of this large body ; for we need hardly observe that, if ignorance be at one time rash and over-confident, it is equally apt to fall into the other extreme of unreasonable apprehension. But the To ries are free from doubts and apprehensions. They have taken up the opinion that Government ought to be carried on for the benefit of those who govern, and they are quite certain that Reform, while it adds to the power of the people, must diminish the profits of those who seek power, not for the sake of benefiting the people, but of benefiting. themselves. Your undecided men, who halt between opi nions, are not, therefore, Tories, who, if they do not, like Lord Stormont, profess to hate the ♦ery name of Reform, do not the less hate it in their hearts. But the Liberals are by no means so decided as the Tories. It is an easy thing to agree when all that is sought for - is to plunder the people, and to preserve the system by which the plunder may be continued. But when men are disinterested politicians, they cannot be expected to have all the same opinions as to the extent to which Re form ought to be carried. The point on which Reformers are most apt to split is the degree to which the Suffrage ought to be extended. Many men who are strongly dis posed to support administrative Reform, to remove the gross abuses which prevail in our judicial institutions, and who are, above all, anxious to provide a good and sub stantial education to the people, are yet afraid of the in fluence of popular ignorance, should the Suffrage be uni versally diffused. They may not only not be satisfied with the existing state of the Suffrage, but greatly dissatisfied with it, and yet afraid of exposing to hazard the consti tutional advantage we enjoy by giving political power to those whom they see led by such charlatans as Feargus O'Connor, the Rev. Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Oastler. If the people of the manufacturing towns, who are comparatively clever, are thus easily seduced into an approbation of the wildest and most mischievous notions, what might be expected were the peasantry of England, who in many places are so brutishly ignorant that they cannot even comprehend the most common terms used in argument, to be at the mercy of every demagogue ? But the position of the Scotsman (whose able article we have elsewhere transferred to our columns), that the best security for the stability of our in stitutions is their progressive adaptation to the wants of the people, and that agitation has always some substantial grievances for its justification, is incontrovertible. It is not the less certain that the Tories are determined that no substantial reform shall take place which they can possibly help. We wish our Contemporary would tell us in what way an end can be put to this state of things. Allowing Ministers disposed to pursue a vigorous course, the Tories will not yield to the mere vigour of Ministers ; and the question is, whether the time is favourable for exciting the people to an effort such as was made during the Reform Bill, by which, once for all, we might be placed in a con dition to count securely on an uninterrupted progress of political amelioration adapted to the wants of the people. —Morning Chronicle. As a mighty and irresistible power is preparing to direct its influence on the next Session of Parliament, it is above all things desirable to guide that influence to practical pur poses, and not to attempt at the realisation of theories, which, however just and plausible in the abstract, are of uncertain capability of accomplishment, and if accomplished of equally uncertain result. To secure that success most advantageous to the national interest, there are two objects to which the efforts of those presuming to direct the public mind, should be unceasingly directed—the first, the propo sition of measures practicable, just, expedient, and appli cable to the times ; and the second, such a skilful adaptation of those measures to the wishes and necessities of all parts of the kingdom, as may induce the people of Great Britain and Ireland to unite cordially in their ac complishment. Our Irish correspondent informs us that there are at present two distinct agitations in active pro gress in Ireland—one connected with the Precursors; the other directed solely against tithes. In England there are also two objects to which Reformers are advised and so- licited to direct their efforts —one, an improved repre sentation ; the other, the Repeal of the Corn-laws. Both countries appear to have fallen into a similar mistake in confounding constitutional with legislative Reforms. The objects of the Precursors are of a mixed character, but one of the most important is constitutional, or an improvement in the system of Representation ; and the others are of a purely legislative character, such as relate to tithes, corpo rations, &c. So also with the English Reformers ; they combine the Corn-laws--a legislative question—with the great constitutional question of a more perfect Representa tion of the people in the House of Commons. Between these two questions with which each country is occupied, an important distinction should be observed. The consti tutional question—the fair representation—is entitled to indisputable priority in application and importance. Even the abolition or due appropriation of tithes, or the abo lition of Corn-laws, sink into comparative insignificance when compared with the advantages which, not only in these respects, but all others, must flow from a full and fair Representation of the People in the House of Com mons. To this grand object, therefore, should the united efforts of both countries be mainly directed.—Morning Advertiser. We observe it was stated by Mr. Sergeant Adams at Clorkenwell, the other day, that the charge upon which Scott has undergone the mockery of a trial without evi dence, anera verdict of acquittal as a matter of course, was not a charge of felony. Undoubtedly there are frauds which are not felonies, and some of those frauds are of a far more heinous character than many felonies. As the article, however, to which the Learned Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions referred, was written by a gentleman who is in no way connected with the legal profession, he might naturally enough have fallen into the mistake of supposing that a fu. gitive treasurer of parochial funds, who was charged with some indictable offence, touching the pecuniary transactions of his office, stood accused of felony. But, felony or mis demeanour, isthetechnical distinction worth disputing, when the great point is, whether justice has been defeated by a compromise between an alleged delinquent, for whose capture 5001. was offered, and the prosecutors who had offered that sum for his apprehension ? A pauper who defrauded the parish authorities to the amount of two shillings, being convicted thereof, was transported for seven years. Is a treasurer of a parish, who is charged with fraud to some very large amount, to be allowed to go free, in consequence of a compromise with the parish authorities ? and shall it not be said that there is one law for the rich delinquent an another for the poor ; and that the maxim which says" the law is no respecter of persons" is practically abolished ? Will the technicality upon which Sergeant Adams has re lied alter one iota the merits of the case, as a question of public justice ? We say not. Whether the case be one of misdemeanour or felony—of swindlingorembezzlement— the moral indignation or the public mischief which attaches to the transaction can neither be lessened nor increased—nor can the injurious effect on the mind of the people at large be altered. Had the exact nature of the fraud for which Scott was indicted been stated in the Court over which Ser geant Adams presides, ignorance of what that precise charge was by a journalist would have been the less excus able ; but neither Court nor Counsel having stated what the precise charge was, and as there was nothing more to be collected from the report than that some species of the crinien falsi was the object of the indictment, we must en deavour to obtain for ourselves the information which the proceedings in the Learned Sergeant's Court did not afford. The Learned Sergeant has chosen to say, that the charge of compounding the offence was made against the Court. It was made against the prosecutors, not against the Court, whom everybody knows could not be a party to the prosecution, and must decide on the evidence, or no evidence, which a prosecutor chooses to offer or with hold. But, inasmuch as Courts have the right —a right which is not unfrequently exercised--a right which, if we mistake not, Sergeant Adams has himself sometimes exercised in gambling-house prosecutions, of commenting upon the dangerous practice of tampering with justice, which compromises of certain indictable offences present, we should have thought that the compromise of the fraud, or compounding of the felony (we will not quarrel about technical niceties) into which the prosecutors of the indict ment had entered with Scott, was a subject peculiarly well adapted for the exercise of that right, and, that, although Sergeant Adams could not have directed the Jury to con vict the accused without evidence, yet, on learning from the statement of the Counsel on both sides, that a com promise had been entered into for the purpose of defeating the ends of ,justice, yet he might have reprobated the pro ceeding if it were only to prevent the public from errone ously supposing that the silence of the Court was to be taken for its consent.—Mar ning Herald. T UEATRES. DRURY-LANE. Rossini's Opera of La Gazza Ladra was produced at this house on Saturday night, under the title of The Maid of Pa laiseau. Madame Albertazzi appeared in Annette or Ninetta, and exerted herself very commendably to render justice to its touching and rather arduous personation. She looked and dressed the part pleasingly, and we willingly accept from her, in her more zealous efforts, reminiscences of Grist's gesticu lation. We need not say that she sang to admiration. The " Di placer" was greatly applauded, as was the concluding cavatina. In the different concerted pieces with which the Opera abounds, she made her sustaining powers be felt as became the prima donna. Perhaps the most charming mor ceau in the night's performance was the duet between her and Miss Poole (as Felix or Pippo), in the prison scene of the se cond act. Miss Poole acquitted herself admirably in this and her other efforts in the Opera. She is now probably the singer of purest style on the British stage ; her voice improves every day in richness and evenness of tone, and in her execution she more and more developed the delicacies of a well cultivated taste. Mr. Phillips supported the part of Fernando, and both in his acting and singing deserved much applause. The fine trio " 0 1 Nume benefico I" was given with excellent effect by him, Albertazzi, and Giubilei, who appeared as the Podesta. It was warmly encored, Mr. Allen, who played the part of the young soldier, Albert, has made considerable advances towards a claim on public favour, since his debut in Don Oc tavio, which, we understand, was made under all the disad vantages of a particularly short notice. Mr. Stretton's per sonation of the old farmer was the best thing in which we have seen him, and gave many indications of the good actor as well as singer. Miss Forde played the farmer's wife agree ably, and Duruset deserves his share of encomium for his touch of the comic to the Jew pedlar. The opera was well got up, although not quite with as much taste, in respect to dresses, as at the Italian house. COVENT-GARDEN. On Saturday evening the Tempest was represented at this theatre, and in a manner, both as regards the cast of the cha racters (the present defective state of the stage duly con sidered) and the scenery and appointments, calculated to enhance the reputation of this establishment, and to uphold, so far as the influence of good example may extend, the great cause of the legitimate drama. The cast, as will be seen, embraced almost the entire tragic and comic strength of the company. Warde played Alonzo ; Diddear, Sebastian ; Macready, Prospero ; Phelps, Antonio ; Anderson, Ferdinand ; G. Bennet, Caliban ; Harley, Trinculo ; and Bartley, Stephan° ; Miranda and Ariel were sustained by Miss Helen Faucit and Miss P. Horton—the latter, besides, personated Ceres, in the " Spirits of the Vision," in which Mrs. Serie and Miss Rainforth represented Iris and Juno. The Prospero of Mr. Macready is a performance too well known to need particular description here. He sustained it on this occasion with that correctness and energy which gene rally characterise his impersonations. The Caliban of Mr. G. Bennett was new to us. It was a forcible delineation of the " man-mons:er," in which the peculiarities of this gentle man's style were not objectionable, and is, we think, the best since the days of poor Emery. \Verde, Phelps, and Anderson were effective, and Harley and Bartley amusing, in their res pective parts. Miss Faucit imparted deep interest to the character of that sweet child of nature Miranda ; but the character, to our mind, and we may add to that of the audience generally, which came out most prominently from the canvass, was the Ariel of Miss P. Horton. We know not whether she were particularly inspired by the words of the poet, or by the dulcet strains of the composer, but cer tainly she never before spoke or sang with the energy and intonation which she did on this occasion. Loud and fre. quent applause rewarded her exertions, and at the end of the play she was unanimously called for, and was led on by Mr. Anderson, after Mr. Macready, who was similarly compli mented, and made his obeissances and retired. In the present representation of this enchanting play the interpolations of Davenant and Dryden have been rejected, and the original text of Shakspeare has been restored—in itself an attraction of no common kind; but, aided as it has been by the skilful em bellishments of the painter and machinist, who, as far as it is practicable, have given reality to the splendid imaginings of the bard of " all time," this play, which was announced for to-morrow night, cannot fail, we think, to have a long and pros. perous career. Reynold's old comedy of Laugh when you can, compressed into three acts, followed. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(MONDAY.) BELFAST, OCT. 12. —The Sheldrake, Wilson, from Lon don to Larne, struck on the North Rock, near Belfast, 11th inst., but got off—part of the cargo discharged, in a damaged state. Vv GUERNSEY, OCT. 12 —The Dart, Putt, from Brexham to Jersey, was lost off the Sark, 11th inst. WHITBY, OCT. 13.—The Barbara, Wood, from Scar borough to Newcastle; David, Brown, of Whitby ; and Hoffnung, of Accummersiel ; were on shore near Whitby, 13th inst. SHIELDS, OCT. 13.—The Vesta, Hutchinson, from Liver pool, struck on Shields Bar this day, and sunk in the harbour; crew and materials saved. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 13.—The Hope, of Shields, was totally wrecked near this place the 13th instant. The James and Thomas, of Inverkeithing, was on shore near this place the 13th instant ; crew saved. BRIGHTON, OCT. 14.—Arrived off port the Jack, Rees, from the Gold Coast. FISHGVA RD, OC r. 13.—Arrived off port the QuAcc, Davis, from Montreal. CORK, OCT. 12.—Arrived the John Stewart, Le Buff, from Newfoundland; Little Queen, Wood, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Allichies, Hayers, from Cadiz ; and John, Poyntz, from London. HULL, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Wilberforce, Skerry, from St. Petersburgh. The Swan, Walsh, was on shore, in Framore Bay, 11th inst., but expected to be got off. The Britannia, from Shields to Leith, and Safety, Shaker, of Shields, for Eyemouth, were on shore, near Sunderland, 13th inst. The Dart, from Sydney, New South Wales, and Port Ade laide, to Mauritius, struck on Troubridge Shoal, South Aus tralia, the 29th March, and filled with water. A letter of the 9th inst., from Amsterdam, states that all the preliminaries for the marriage of the eldest son of the Prince of Orange with the Princess Sophia, second daugh ter of the King of Wurtemberg, which we have already alluded to, have been finally arranged. The matrimonial negotiations had been considerably protracted in consequence of the desire at first entertained of satisfying the court etiquette, which re quired that the elder sister of the Princess should be first mar ried ; but, at the pressing instance of the Royal family of Hol land, the King of Wurtemberg had consented to waive his scruples on this point, and his decision to that effect had just been received at the Hague. The Baron Van der Duyen de Maasdam, Governor of Southern Holland, was to set out for Stuttgardt to make an official demand of the young Princess's hand. It is expected that on the opening of the States Ge neral on Monday next a Bill will be presented to them on the subject. OVERGROWN WEALTH.—The celebrated Countess Branitska, the niece of Potemkin, died lately on her estate of Biala-Cerkiew, in the 80th year of her age. She had been a favourite of the Empress Catherine, on which account the Emperor Alexander always treated her with the utmost dis tinction and respect, addressing her by the name of matushka or mother. He never met ber without kissing her band, and he would stand in her presence until she bade him be seated. The Countess has left an immenso fortune, which will be partly inherited by Count Woronzow, her son-in-law. The sum of 1,000,000 sterling in specie was found in her chateau ; she had 60,000,000 of roubles lodged in the Bank of Russia, and on her estates were 130,000 peasants or slaves. The Countess in her lifetime made money in every way : she lent it out in mortgages, and there are very few landed proprietors in the empire who are not her debtors. She discounted bills, sold gold, disposed herself of the immense produce of her lands, and it is even said that, having visited France some years since, and finding human hair so valuable an article in that country, she had, on her return to Russia, caused the beads of all her female slaves to be shaved, and shipped a cargo of chevelures to France, where they fetched her a hand some return. Her caisse was always escorted by 30 or 40 Cossacks, and her reputation for wealth was so general throughout the empire that, during the last insurrection, the Polish Government had given instructions to General Dwer nicki and other Officers sent on expeditions into Lithuania to endeavour to gain possession of her treasures. THE ROSE BED or BENGAL.—Ghazipore stands upon the north bank of the Ganges, about seventy miles by water, below Benares. It is not a very extensive town, but is justly celebrated as the Gul-istan (the rose bed) of Bengal. In the spring of the year an extent of miles around the town presents to the eye a cont'nual garden of roses, than which nothing can be more beautiful and fragrant. The sight is per fectly dazzling ; the plain, as f ar as th e eye can reac h , extend ing in the same bespangled carpet of red and green. The breezes, too, are loaded with the sweet odour which is wafted far across the river Ganges. The flower is cultivated thus exten sively for the manufacture of rose-water, that of Ghazipore being justly esteemed as surpassing in excellence every pro duction of the sort. Whether or not this may be attributable to the superiority of the flowers, or the process of distillation, I cannot say ; but, as the roses did not appear to me to possess greater fragrance than others of their class, I should rather refer it to the latter cause ; unless, indeed, it be that the wonderful abundance of the materiai enables them to be more lavish in its decoction than is elsewhere possible. It is no less cheap than excellent ; a gallon of the most delicious may be pur chased for seven or eight shillings. They do not, however, understand at Ghazipore, the art of distilling the atr of roses in the same perfection as the Persians. The spurious com pound which they endeavour to palm upon the traveller is weak, and possesses a sickly disagreeable odour foreign to the rose; but the purchaser is often deceived by a little of the true atr being rubbed about the stopper and neck of the bottle. The prices demanded for this miserable imitation are exor bitant the explanation of which I received from on e o f t h e t ; vendors—he assured me that long experience had tau g ht hi m i ta that it was part of the character of the English to despise every thing cheap, and to consider any thing choice and excel lent which was extravagantly priced.—Oriental Annual. On Wednesday last two woodcocks were shot at Wingerworth, by the gamekeeper,—Nottin,yhcon Journal. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE• v.-- CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 13.-0 a Wednesday last, being the first day of term, the following gentlemen were elected Uni versity officers : PROCTORS. Rev. James Burdakin, M. A., Clare Hall. Rev. Henry Arlett, M.A., Pembroke College. MODERATORS. Rev. Thomas Gaskin, M. A., Jesus College. Rev. Joseph Bowstead, M.A., Pembroke College. SCRUTATORS. Rev. Francis Martin, M.A., Trinity College. Rev. Robert Cory, B.D , Emmanuel College. TAXORS- Rev. J. Baldwin, M. A., Christ's College. Rev. George Langshaw, M.A., St. John's College. AUDITORS OF CHEST. Rev. Dr. Ainslie, Master of Pembroke. Rev. C. Tucker, M. A., St. Peter's College. Rev. E. H. Browne, M.A., Emmanuel College. At the same congregation the following degrees were eon" ferred - - Robert Henry Wright, Trinity College. Evan Evans, Queen's College. Yesterday the following gentlemen were appointed The Caput for the ensuing year : The Vice-Chancellor. Rev. Dr. Ainslie, Master of Pembroke College.—Divinity. James William Geldart, D. C. L., Trinity Hall.—Law. William Clark, M. D., Trinity College.—Physic. t- Robert Birkett, M. A., Emmanuel Coll. — Se n. Non Regen t. H. W. Cookson, M. A., St. Peter's College.—Sen. Regent° The Rev. Frederick Tryon, B. A., has been presented b. the vicarage of Deeping St. James, by Sir Thomas Whi° cote, Bart., vacant by the cession of the Rev. Frederick Sep timus Emly. OXFORD, Om 6. —The Bishop of Worcester has Pr, e tt? ; sented the Rev. W. A. Pruen, of Worcester College, to , vicarage of Sitterfield, Warwickshire, and t he Rev. Dory nal °`°, Cameron, late Fellow of Wadham College , to the Recto St. Helen's and St. Alban's, Worcester. There is now vacant a Fellowship on the Williamson :f is Port Foundation of Brazennose College. Members of t f University who are natives of the city or county palatine -0. Chester, and of kindred of John Williamson, formerly toe of Canterbury, or of John Port, Serjeant-at-Law , m a Y candidates if they have not been matriculated more than eig 0 years. The day of election is not yet fixed, but will take Pl° ear TUESDAY, in the nm. y ensui g ter ESDAY, OCT. 9 —This day the Rev. Ashhust Turn ; el ; Gilbert, D. D., and Principal of Brazennose College, WI; been re-nominated Vice-Chancellor of the University , took t„ oaths of office, and entered upon the duties of the Vice-Cb.3,;: cellorship for the third year, with the accustomed solemnitle,a The following Heads of Houses were afterwards notnin B l 4 by the Vice-Chancellor to be Pro Vice-Chaneellors (111,, his necessary absence from the University, viz. :—Pr• u e s kyns, Master of Balliol ; Dr. Bridges, President of Corpct oaf Dr. Marsham, Warden of Merton ; Dr. Haw kins, Pra t) " Oriel. arer The following days are appointed for hold in g ennb " tions for granting Degrees, &c., during the pr esent ter 15; Thursday, Oct. 25 ; Fridav, Nov. 2 ; Thursday, N o r ., Y e . „. 6; Thursday, Nov. 22 ; Thursday, Nov. 0 9 ; Thursday, l'w and Monday, Dec. 17. OCT. 10.—This being the first day of Michaelmas w hen a congregation was holden for granting Degrees, Sic• ; the followin were coferred : Magdalen Bachelor g of Divini n ty.—Rev. W. Hancock, o f College. f . o ilege Masters of Arts.—Rev. F. Fulford, of Exeter t" sou ls (Grand Compounder) ; Hon. E. H. Grimston, AU Jam es College ; Rev. Edward Morris, Christ Church ; Re C o lle de• Field, Magdalen Hall; Mr. W. Pulling, B r azennose Bachelors of Arts.—S. D. R. Roper, of St. M al i flail; (Grand Compounder) ; George Warrriner, St. Ecli nwi G. W. Collins, St. John's College. LONDON MARKETS• PRICE Of The highest price of Bread in the: Aeod Bread may be had at Bd. E Me S tropolis ßAD. is 10d. for th e 411'.j'C PRICE OF .................. ............ 4431! New English Re e d r C C lo w v t e'rso3. 70s. NIG St. SE New Foreign Ditto 4Ss. 655. 70s. l'' 01.4 Ditto Ditto -s• -s• -s Rye Grass n ................... • iss• New White Clover "1 - 0:.. Old Ditto Ditto 6 40 35 s .. 705. 0 Ditto,l.ln c s e ee f d G o , r r afsolsr;fien.e.gcl...iii....g.".... ....... . 5 , 2,8: ‘ 6 s s ......s. ,„, 4 • Old Ditto Ditto _-8 „, 100. Is:. 205.45 e, ,2 0 5 5 . . 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P e Middling 358 Od. to -s. 01 Chats Os Od. to 30s. 414 (I' PRICES OF LEATHER. d , t ° 2l Per lb. d. to d. Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 Horse Hides, P e G r e l rro b 0;$ an ...... i 2 Gull 171 ei_g 504 : 5°60 12 16 Horse e u or setrttsssses: Dressing Saddlers Vitriol diee rs,B Hi d es - Foreigt E r H ng •c l l i es h lO 13 11 1 1 42 5 4 2 2 1165 2 6 : BSR-ceaalsllii-je5;...i...n......5....,....7.4..10.0.a...r..5.g..11.e1;:..........i.....5..::::;:•:.........:....1....."..:..: 1 1 : 0 1 : :: 91 16 17 - -50 60 ............ .15 I Shaved English Hides slf roun l d o ed 1d. 13 10 12 -- small ........... .... ~-. il , 11 0, PRICE OIL. - OFLinseed Oil, 28 • J. --Dose ~,. Rape Oil, brawn, per ton, 421. Os -Refined, . It per ton, 6 , '' Linßap Ca es Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000', 2 -' 12 1 .1 5 ' dlb. '. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone o. ... s 3. g Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meters) ........ • ...... 11203. 04. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sec per ..,,,,, , Town Tallow ......... ioS4lido ull,cluerrls.....m.. ... r..,... ........ 5Ss. 6d. Yellow Soap ........... ... 4 . O : Yellow Russia .. ....... ....,. .563. Od. Mottled ....................... .....,. Od . White Soap Ditto Melting Stuffss. pd. G Cu ra rd , ..... ........................................................... 1.,64 0. 0..1, 45,. Od. Good Dregs ...... ..... Ditto Rough 2/s Cd. .., PRICE OF CANDLS. as felloWS • The price of good Store Candles is , the Real i ShoPg is ,_ 91 . Od , Candles, per dozen, Ss. 0.1. ; inferior, 7s. 01.-Moulds, Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. X COAL NI ARKET.--ect , 15 ' 0. 9 Per Ton. s. ::. Adalr's Bensham Burdon ........... , 2 Chester Main Holywell 22 6 Walls End Whitwel, , ......... Fr; • Ord's Redhugh ......... ' , l; 21.1 t O i Walls End E En n d d r Hlier:Ttv.:ennlll ...................... ...... ... ........... Il ti, Original Windsor Pontep Russell's High Main 2O 9 Walls End 'Wring . ~. ... ~. ..... _, Smith's Primrose l9 t; Walls End tees Gordon:._. ..„ F , ; _ South Tanfield Townley Wylarn Walls End Gosforthttoo "".. f 5 I Walls End Heaton 24 (1 Walls End West ,„ em 5.,,...."... _ Walls End Hilda 22 ' 1) 42 9 1 (3011 i Walls aa a a l i li l t s ! EEFE!intn,dedd Southv6l.eeiYeetinsci.:•Di,a.l;t‘,l3ol°... ........... il 0, 1 Walls End Northumberlandßlythe ................. ... jr , ...... - 5 - 0 Walls End Percy Bensharo 23 3 Stone Coal Milford v'' ..... nO ~ Walls End Perkins 1.3 0 Elsicar ................ n ~, ,0 . Walls End Riddell's..... ...• " Walls"_End Belmont S li t a m v v e a l r e d Y ;s Al Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 25 0 Walls End Devo n Sg• Ships arrived since last marltet-daY. ir ____....... _ _ the Naienth.e..r.t.:0hire0............... ~,, u Not many days since two infants . 0 " be AveY'ibo parents alone in their cradles at Montbazens, 1n t e frolo were devoured by sows, which got into the cottag farmyard. of --------------'"---------------- GREAT ADVANTAGE TO TEA LARGECONS I - 731° ot . titie s t : Lt of TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in q u„- 'M sma ll '' less than one pound, in tin cases of 61bs. net, or ai er 121bs. and upwards. Rh on' thi s If e i s To afford every facility to large consumers, to or or .r o e f t° tisement is addressed, not less than one pound of .1 dro' made at this establishment, as the small profits will not a . 'lP usual division of quantities made by retail houses., A 0 G. T. MANSELL and CO., wrnoLL,- DEALERS, 2, Bueklersbury, Chapside. Os' LD GENTLEMEN'S ELEGANT FL AT b, of vi a WATCHES are offered, price Nine Guineas:aced wes t , ge suited to wear in the waistcoat pocket, engine t rn , o veln e f, se' enamel dial, and hand to mark the seconds. Th e "-fuzee to s e e on the celebrated horizontal construction, with gc'hig ro nted' ise len tinue going while winding, jewelled , &c., and S r phill COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, &c. , No. 47, 1 1 $ doors from Gracechurch-street), London. ed io exe N.B. Second-hand Watches, Plate, &e. purchas ----=--' r• ,„ of gr• Harrison, o o n n the 14th 1 01 t 3 t a h thd i a n jusngts.ht,tienr.theßGfeßatTDßOSve.;;road the . I ;: deley, o f 1 the On the 13th inst., ” at at ßarn •r e oh 0 1 daughter. , the Rev. John Jackson, of a daughter. AV MA R i. gr. o of inster? ought Bayswater, r-sq uare s ,. On the 13th inst ,at St. Marget's, Wc sdn donald, of Hadding;on, North Briatarin, to Eliza!, f°•viTurtslittni°soqter; to the late Mr. James Brown of New Palace-yar., • ° ~ o e bing, On the 10th inst., ' Charles 116 0 . 7 w o rt at Broadwater , o s, • Catherine, eldest daughter of 11r. George arson surrey; Sussex. ; , g ton• he la t On the 11th inst., at St. Mark's Church, ge nt "' • .., o daughter est on Islington Henry Hayes Atkinson, of Brixton-road, young ece nd d. Rev. Charles Atkinson, of Alargate, to Matilda, r e iton .rea r. J. of the late J. L. Sudgrove, Esq., of Fox Lodge , 13 „..,,,,lae e, 'per' On the 11th inst., at All Souls' Church, angbacl'ieryne, oi Miller, Esq., of Millbank-street, to Miss Maria° ......,...../ ners-street. • t o wi fe 01 ywou o .nc n ge. t s h lt e ldo l ao 3 ud t g, h inst., in Up Ono nt the I t a h c e k t 11- 1 lace Frances, an d tent h ls t he - A t t t , l . l , e al tr Jl. Palace-road, I t a ll h il . e ea l ) i r egA n e l3 ; o t r E a c . or:, Bedford -place' f d l: ao l , r g a e :" lL e r , - r, a i l i ) ni t Ei 4 b7s t q : •' tip ells, ,i, e: of : d , I:sq. 79 tOn Charles j° Dodd, aged 13, the youngest son of Charles R. De" i.entish toilf" 14th aged 59, • alit f Li euten w ife o Leamington of , cso o t n ob t e h r e , inl3„thaifinst., Jane' cotia , OP' General Sir Cohn Campbell, Governor of Nova S rre F r ed On the titer Lockle , daug' ~ y, Esq., aged 59 isabelia, 41.010%7a On the 13 • ' . th inst., at Charlton, Blackheath, Ro yal P o e c_e of the late Colonel Henry Rogers, formerly o f the .. , k, the 5 On the 13th inst., at Brighton, aged 38, Frederic , fl ora son of Abel Chapman Esq. of Woo-dford, Esse%. mr Oea sq . 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